bulk
IPA: bˈʌɫk
noun
- Size, specifically, volume.
- Any huge body or structure.
- The major part of something.
- Majority
- Gist
- Dietary fibre.
- (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
- (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- (obsolete) The body.
verb
- (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
- (transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to, to bulk out.
adjective
- being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
- total
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Examples of "bulk" in Sentences
- Making pesto in bulk is like stretching and priming a canvas.
- In other words, they take the well-worn assumption that buying in bulk is cheaper and exploit it ruthlessly
- I have given up trying to buy locally, as a result of this poisoned pricing model and have gone instead to buying in bulk from the left coast.
- Very rarely do vodka marketers tell the truth and say, here’s our new vodka, which we buy in bulk from the same distillery that produces vodka for $8 a bottle.
- There are many reports available that show that samples composed of nanoparticles, all things equal, can lead to better performance than what we call bulk counterparts.
- SYNOPSIS use Geo:: Coder:: Bing:: Bulk; my $bulk = Geo:: Coder:: Bing:: Bulk-new (key = 'Your Bing Maps key'); my $id = $bulk-upload (\@locations); sleep 30 while $bulk-is_pending; my $data = $bulk-download; my $failed = $bulk-failed;
- According to Brix, the weight per English cord and relative heating effect of several air-dry peats -- the heating power of an equal bulk of oak wood being taken at 100 as a standard -- are as follows, _bulk for bulk_: [13] _Weight per _Heating cord. _ effect.
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